"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."--Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise, 1670. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Virgen de Monserrate

Henry White William Henry Rinehart

People of the Soil (mural study, Dickson... Edwin Boyd Johnson

Nóm-ba-mon-nee, Double Walker, a Brave George Catlin

Heather (Phyllodoce intermedia) Mary Vaux Walcott

Rachel Bartholomew Davis James Alexander Simpson